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Foil damping tape as a tonearm tube wrap?

There has been a couple sporadic posts recently about using a product called 3M foil damping tape to wrap tonearm tubes. The tape is normally used in applications to reduce unwanted vibrations in the product to which the tape is attached. In the particular tonearm wrap applications, users claim a noticeable improvement in sonic qualities of vinyl playback. I created this thread to catalog impressions of others who have used this material, their particular tonearm wrap applications and their take away stories. Who has used this product for tonearm wraps? Thoughts?
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celander OP
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The first link from my previous post includes a broken link. The clean link is here: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-Damping-Foil-2552/?N=5002385+3293194280&...

Here is the link to the product specification sheet: http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/96388O/3mtm-damping-foil-2552.pdf
terry9
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I use a product called Moon Gel, small semi-adhesive pads to adjust the tonal characteristics of drum kits. I place it on the arm wands of my TransFi air bearing tonearms.

Subjectively, there is more detail and less fizz - an altogether more refined and life-like sound.
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bdp24
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Michael Percy (Audio) sells an EAR product named TAD Damping Foil. It's a composite damping sheet comprised of a viscoelastic pressure sensitive adhesive constrained by an aluminum foil layer, 0.005" thick. It's very light and flexible, perfect for damping tone arm tubes. Cheap too, $3.50 for a 9" x 12" sheet. Percy has a $25.00 minimum order requirement, but he has lots of other cool stuff, including other EAR damping products. 
analogluvr
859 posts
 
I use plumbers Teflon tape. Light thin and stretchy with excellent damping properties. 
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geoffkait
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I’m personally not a big fan of EAR damping productsl having had very mediocre results (I.e., poor) with their blue damping sheets 🦋 and blue footers 🐬 but I say, “never say never” as I haven’t tried the EAR viscoelastic tape. The EAR stuff seems like it would be great for audio, not too hard, not too squishy. Oh, well.
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